Trent Lee Brackenridge

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Trent Lee Brackenridge, age 45, the youngest of five children born to Nova May (Smith) and James Coleman Brackenridge was born Nov. 5, 1961, in El Dorado Springs, Mo., and passed from this life on Friday, April 13, 2007, at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Okla.

At the age of two, Trent, along with his family moved to Schell City where he attended school, graduating in 1980. While he was still in high school, he began employment with Wal-Mart in Nevada, Mo. He later transferred to Kansas City, Mo., before "climbing the corporate ladder" led him to work at the home office of Wal-Mart in Bentonville, Ark. It was while in Bentonville that he and Sam Walton met and became friends and that was a good friend to have. The first home that he owned there was on the National Registry of Historic Homes.

Trent lived in Bentonville until 1993 when he transferred to the Tulsa, Okla., store. His Wal-Mart career spanned 28 years. During his spare time Trent enjoyed cooking, buying antiques, home decorating, and yard work. He was a longtime member of the Schell City Christian Church.

Survivors include his mother and father, Nova Brackenridge of Schell City, and J.C. Brackenridge of El Dorado Springs; one brother, Archie Brackenridge and his wife Sheila of El Dorado Springs; two sisters, Vicki McKinney and Jalene Flint both of Schell City; his grandmother, Bessie Smith of El Dorado Springs; his great-aunt, Velma Smith also of El Dorado Springs; two aunts, Vivian Tremain of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Margie Jordan of Denison, Iowa; nieces and nephews, Adam Brackenridge, Lisa Brackenridge, Stacy Ijams, Rebecca Law, and Preston Flint. He was preceded in death by one brother, Rickie Brackenridge who passed away in 1979.